schedule oddities

Bear with me, this is complicated...

The FMR tries to maintain our schedule in accordance with the Dean's calendar for the medical students, as do most of the other GME programs at UTMB. We do this for many reasons, one of which is coordination. The more of us who are on the same schedule, the simpler it is to manage rotation orientations and that sort of thing. Periodically, the medical school alters the schedule by a week at the beginning of the academic year. This is one of those years.

Block 13 of AY2007-08 ends on June 22. Block 1 of AY2008-09 will not begin until June 30.

Graduating resident contracts end June 30. As has been our custom, R3s will be scheduled for their mandatory university checkout routine during that extra week. You may also use up any comp time you've accrued and/or take vacation days, once your checkout obligations are met.

Linda is in the process of investigating our options for the current R1s and R2s. If you are on the FM Hospital service, block 13 will be 5 weeks long for you, and you will remain on the hospital service. This may also be the case for certain other rotations - likely MICU, Newborn Nursery, ER, etc. We will let you know as soon as we know. For some, we will schedule you for R2/R3 Orientation activities during that week. Likely that will be no more than 3 days (hopefully just 2), so that may turn out to be a good time to take some comp or vacation days as well. Stay tuned for updates as more information becomes available. See Linda if you have individual questions.